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1 Online-Ressource (xx, 284 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511896026
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in religious traditions 5
Content:
Women under the Bo Tree examines the tradition of female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka. The study is textual, historical and anthropological, and links ancient tradition with contemporary practice. Tessa Bartholomeusz utilizes data based on her field experiences in many contemporary cloisters of Sri Lanka, and on original archival research. She explores the history of the re-emergence of Buddhist female renouncers in the late nineteenth century after a hiatus of several hundred years; the reasons why women renounce; the variety of expressions of female world-renunciation; and, above all, attitudes about women and monasticism that have either prohibited women from renouncing or have encouraged them to do so. One of the most striking discoveries of the study is that the fortunes of Buddhist female renouncers is tied to the fortunes of Buddhism in Sri Lanka more generally, and to perceived notions of Sri Lanka as the caretaker of Buddhism.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521071680
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521461290
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521461290
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521071680
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Bartholomeusz, Tessa J., 1958 - 2001 Women under the Bō tree Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 1994 ISBN 0521461294
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521461290
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sri Lanka
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Bhikkuni
;
Geschichte Anfänge-1990
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511896026
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